From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 13 20:36:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48C2C14E56 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 20:36:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA90153; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 13:06:06 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 13:06:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Ben Goodwin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: 3.3R box crashing; need help debugging the crash Message-ID: <19991014130605.Y78191@freebie.lemis.com> References: <011201bf15ec$2d177380$6a477392@dsg.hamsterville.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <011201bf15ec$2d177380$6a477392@dsg.hamsterville.ultranet.com> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 13 October 1999 at 22:31:10 -0400, Ben Goodwin wrote: > On Saturday, October 09, 1999 1:23 AM, "Ben Goodwin" wrote: >>>> Cool, perhaps if you provide some interesting information, someone >>>> _else_ will know how to interpret it. :-) >>> >>> Indeed that's what I'm looking to have done .. >>> >>>> First, we make some assumptions here: >>>> >>>> 1) When you configured your kernel, you did ``config -g'' for debugging >>>> support. >>> >>> Yes. >>> >>>> 2) Hopefully, your crash isn't happening inside a kld. That's icky. For >>>> this situation, try to limit the number of kld's you use. >>> >>> I don't think I'm using any.. I have a perty basic config going here .. >>> >>>> gdb -k /path/to/kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.0 >>>> >>>> Gdb should tell you about the panic. You can then issue the command >>>> ``back'' at the GDB prompt to get a backtrace. Then cut'n'paste >>>> everything that follows the gdb copyright notice. :-) >>> >>> Ok.. I've gotten to this point on my own .. so I'll cut-n-paste the >> results > > Okay, since this didn't work. Who can I contact to help me out with this? I don't see any results. If you had trouble getting them, you need to describe the trouble, not ignore the technique. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message